RaNEWED DISTURBANCES xx Kenr.—On Saturday at midnight, a band Oralen
were surprised at the premises of Mr. Quested, near Ash, in the act of turning out his horses. It is supposed that they intended to burn the premises, but were unwilling to sacrifice the noble animals that they contained. Thus disturi,ed, it is supposed the gang proceeded to the "Saimaa se," a thrni occupied by a LU r. Castle, and in the immediate vicinity of Sandwich. Here they fired the barns and the stacks ; and hardly had the tire been discovered when both were in a Haze. The whole property—several hundred pounds in value—was utterly destroyed. On the same night, a party of men broke him the premises of Mr. Gardner, at Beaksbourne, and destroyed a thrashing-machine, of which they did nn leave one wheel unbroken. At ten o'clock next morning, another party destroyed a thrashing-machine near the Three Colts, Sand- wich.
A number of similar atrocities have been committed in the course of
the week. \ A letter from Canterbury, dated Tuesday, says —" At Ash, where several tumultuous assemblages have already taken place, the labouring mess have struck, determined that no married man shall go to work un. less he receives half.a-crown a day for his labour. Some of the farmers have resisted with prudential firmness ; but they have been informed ; that unless they. comply their ploughs will be destroyed." No fewer than three-and-thirty rioters were conveyed to St. Augustin's gaol on Tues. day, by the military and constables. Most of them appeared determined, resolute fellows. The rick-yard at Selley Court, belonging to Mr. Neame, • steward to Lord Sondrs, was burnt down on Tuesday afternoon. Com- bustible matter, was, it is said, discovered at the barn-doors. There is a rumour that the inceadiaries are encouraged by persons of superior rank ; but this, we believe, is a mere fancy.
The Kent Herald says, that on Tut-stlay about two hundred machine. breakers passed through Charing and Lenhstm, on their way towards Maidstone, endeavouring to get others to join them, and spreading. alarm wherever they went.
TRIAL or TH2 Kr.NTIS II RIOTERS.—The six men who were tried
at Canterbury on Saturday for machine-breaking, pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to three days' imprisonment ; a lenity which, as the country people did not isispete it to the judgment or kindness of their rulers, but to their fears, has of course only aggravated the evil it was intended to assuage. Th.: ruffians ought to have been sent to the tread- mill for a twelvemonth, and whipped half-a-dozen times during that period.
INFERNAL MACHINE.—On Sunday night, the inhabitants of Bal. wark Street, Dover, were aroused from their slumbers soon after twelve o'clock by a tremendous explosion ; which upon investigation turned out to have proceeded from it bottle of gunpowder, which had been ig- nited, and the bottle blown into hundreds of pieces, one of which passed through the window of Mr. Thomas Waters's house, and entered a chamber where some lodgers were sleeping, but without injuring them. —Kentish Gazette.
EXTENSION OF TILE Sgsraar.—On Saturday evening last, about seven
o'clock, a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr. James Beslev, of Huntland Farm, in the parish of Tiverton, which entirely consumed the whole of his extensive premises in the course of two hours, together with upwards of fifty bushels of wheat, twenty of barley, and nearly forty hogsheads of cider, and litiOandry tools in abundance with an excellent thrashing machine. We fear it is the,diabolical act Of some incendiary. —SherborneJournal. _ Your:urns. Pitrumrs.—The piecers in the factory of Messrs. Hindletel
and Hyde, of Dukintield, mere lads, the eldest of whom probably does not much exceed fourteen years of age a few days ago struck for an advance of wages. We are informed they engaged a room at a public- house, summoned a general meeting of their body, appointed a chairmar4 and made speeches, all in form in the moving and seconding of resolu- tions and amendments.--4uteliester Mercury. SUPPOSED Musing:IL—Mr. George Watson or Bentley Grange, near Bretton West, has been missing since Friday last. On that day he at- tended 'Wakefield market and left his inn soon after seven o'clock in the evening. He passed through Caller Bridge Bar about half-past seven, on his way home on the Wakefield and Denbydale turnpike road. This is the last time he was seen or heard of. Some of Isis servants went in search of him about midnight ; and finding he had passed over Calder Bridge, suspicion was immediately excited that he had met with an un- timely end between that place and home. No discovery was made till early on Saturday morning, when Isis horse was found grazing on the turnpike road-side, near the Suspension Bridge over the Calder, within one hundred yards of the bar, where he was last seen. His pocket-book, which was empty, and some letters and papers, were found near Blacker Hall, strewed about in the lane towards Crigglestone Cliff, from Nether. ton, about thirty yards from the turnpike road, and upwards of two miles from the place where the horse was found. No trace of the body has hitherto been obtained ; though every exertion has been used in searching, both by his friends and some hundreds of persons from the surrounding villages—Leeds Intelligeneer. Another account says, Watson is suspected of having gone to America, where he has a brother; and that the suspicious circumstances above noticed have been manufactured to elude pursuit.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—A ruffian named Watson, a painter in
Beverley, attempted, on Saturday last, to kill his wife, from whom he had for some time been separated, on account of his dissipated habits. He proceeded with great deliberation in his murderous attack ; which he proclaimed beforehand to his acquaintances, apparently with the view to prepossess them with doubts of his sanity. He got into the poor woman's lodgings by climbing up a Spout; and the first notice of his presence was the noise he made in effecting an entrance by a garret-window. The instrument he made use of was a gouge chisel. The female attacked, who owed her life to the darkness of the room, made her escape covered with wounds. One of them- had pierced. the left cheek ; another had divided the temporal artery of the right side; another of some extent had divided the fleshy part of the thumb from the bone, and wounded the artery there. There was a wound on the cheek-bone, another on the chin, one on the upper part of the chest, one on the left side, about the third rib, and two on the left arm. When he was seized, he was found to have slightly cut his own neck, but with f'a very reverend care. for his health. He has been committed to York Castle, on the capital charge of cutting and maiming. DEATH BY FIGHT ING._On Saturday night, a party of drunken fel- lows at Spalding; quarrelled with one another, and a fight took place be. tween Charles Hudson, shoemaker, and John Wade, labourer ; the former seconded by John Cheney, the latter by Thomas Gresham. After fighting some time, Cbeney exclaimed to the opposite party, that they were using foul play ; on which the original combatants gave over, and the two seconds commenced fighting ; and after several rounds, Cheney fell to the ground nearly senseless, from a severe blow. Medical aid was immediately procured ; but before the arrival of the surgeon, the unfor- tunate man had breathed hialast.—Boston Gazette.
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